Delamere Book Eight

As the song says, ‘I’ve gone about as fur as I can go,’ with this one. For now, at least. So, I sent the MS off to be proofread, and Andjela is working on a cover. I have an illustration, and all will be revealed in due course. I also have a draft blurb which I will post for you, and I have my usual collection of author’s notes at the end.

For this book, those notes cover such things as Holywell Street itself, a man called William Lazenby who may or may not have penned the book, The Sins of the City of the Plain, the Cleveland Street Scandal, and there’s a brief mention of Fanny and Stella, cross-dressers arrested 23 years earlier.

The couple are only mentioned in passing, but you might be interested to know more about their story, and there’s a great article titled Fanny and Stella: Piecing together LGBTQ+ histories and telling the stories. [Click Here]

Oh, and I have also started a thing called Baxter’s Glossary, which I will put in either at the front or back of the book. There’s a fair amount of slang in use in this one, and I can’t always explain it in the text.

Anyway, here’s the blurb for Delamere Eight:

Act for all of us.

Respected dentist Harold Eskell writes a list of cryptic references for Jack Merrit to find and then takes his own life.

Now leading the Delamere Agency, Jack is determined to uncover the truth behind Eskell’s final act. Enlisting the help of Baxter and his loyal team, he embarks on an investigation that uncovers shattered lives, unexplained suicides, illicit photography, underground erotica, and blackmail.

It’s all leading him somewhere, but where?

All things are unrelated yet connected, and the only way to do the right thing is for Jack to risk his liberty and fight crime with crime.